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Posts tagged with 'design' and 'computers' at MetaFilter.Thu, 05 Mar 2015 05:25:20 -0800Thu, 05 Mar 2015 05:25:20 -0800en-ushttp://blogs.law.harvard.edu/tech/rss60"The accuracy of the sea came at the cost of the land."http://www.metafilter.com/147607/The%2Daccuracy%2Dof%2Dthe%2Dsea%2Dcame%2Dat%2Dthe%2Dcost%2Dof%2Dthe%2Dland
<em>That’s how I feel about the web these days. We have a map, but it’s not for me. So I am distanced. It feels like things are distorted. I am consistently confused.</em>
— Frank Chimero, on <a href="http://frankchimero.com/talks/what-screens-want/transcript/">What Screens Want</a> tag:metafilter.com,2015:site.147607Thu, 05 Mar 2015 05:25:20 -0800iamkimiam"I AM ____ LOCKED"http://www.metafilter.com/141988/I%2DAM%2DLOCKED
<a href="http://vimeo.com/tonyzhou">Tony Zhou</a> (<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/139226/One-Scene-One-Shot">previously</a>) has created another great video essay on filmmaking techniques: <a href="http://vimeo.com/103554797">"A brief look at texting and the internet in film"</a> (<a href="http://www.metafilter.com/127301/Imagined-Interfaces">also previously</a>). tag:metafilter.com,2014:site.141988Sun, 17 Aug 2014 06:07:22 -0800AlonzoMosleyFBIEvolution of the PC, 2004-2014http://www.metafilter.com/140575/Evolution%2Dof%2Dthe%2DPC%2D2004%2D2014
<a href="http://www.engadget.com/2014/07/05/evolution-of-the-pc/">A Decade of Computer Design</a> [SL-Engadget] tag:metafilter.com,2014:site.140575Sat, 05 Jul 2014 20:04:51 -0800modernnomadFixing Windows 8http://www.metafilter.com/134741/Fixing%2DWindows%2D8
<em>Wow! Microsoft is thinking about</em> <a href="http://www.theverge.com/2013/12/9/5192742/windows-threshold-start-menu-rumor">bringing back the Start Menu and Modern apps on the Desktop</a>. <em>This is perfect timing!</em> <a href="http://jay-machalani.squarespace.com/blog/2013/12/12/fixing-windows-8">Here you’ll why it’s a good idea and how they should do it.</a> tag:metafilter.com,2013:site.134741Thu, 12 Dec 2013 23:07:26 -0800ArtwRemembered, NeXThttp://www.metafilter.com/127688/Remembered%2DNeXT
As the roots of Apple's OS X, <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NeXT">NeXT</a> is fairly well known. Have you <a href="http://www.johnmirandaphoto.com/next.htm">actually seen one</a>, though? tag:metafilter.com,2013:site.127688Fri, 03 May 2013 13:28:50 -0800gilrainuse value vs. exchange valuehttp://www.metafilter.com/119532/use%2Dvalue%2Dvs%2Dexchange%2Dvalue
<a href="http://edge.org/conversation/what-is-value">What Is Value? What Is Money?</a> (<a href="http://www.scoop.it/t/talks">via</a> <a href="http://twitter.com/pkedrosky/status/241226145075453953">via</a>) <blockquote><a href="http://www.idlex.freeserve.co.uk/idle/evolution/human/economic/index.html">What is value about?</a> and how do we measure value? <a href="http://crookedtimber.org/2012/08/29/debt-the-first-five-hundred-pages/">Traditionally</a>, the way of measuring value has been not been through measures of value, but actually through measures of appropriation: measures of the amount of money that you can appropriate through that business, not the value that it generates in society. <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/115827/From-Graduate-School-to-Welfare#4345909">We're starting to see this difference.</a></blockquote><a href="http://edge.org/conversation/reinventing-society-in-the-wake-of-big-data">Reinventing Society In The Wake Of Big Data</a><blockquote>With Big Data we can now begin to actually look at the details of social interaction and how those play out, and are no longer <a href="http://www4.gsb.columbia.edu/citi/news/item/727693/Eli+Noam:+Goodbye,+Macroeconomics+-+The+Financial+Times+Online">limited to averages</a> like market indices or election results. This is an astounding change. The ability to see the details of the market, of political revolutions, and <a href="http://www.socialsciencespace.com/2012/08/robert-shiller-on-behavioral-economics/">to be able to predict</a> and control them is definitely a case of Promethean fire -- it could be used for good or for ill, and so Big Data brings us to interesting times. We're going to end up <a href="http://infoproc.blogspot.com/2012/07/iterated-prisoners-dilemma-is-ultimatum.html">reinventing</a> what it means to have a <a href="http://dannyreviews.com/h/Cooperative_Species.html">human society</a>.</blockquote>more on 'data science'
-<a href="http://cscs.umich.edu/~crshalizi/weblog/925.html">No, Really, Some of My Best Friends Are Data Scientists</a>
-<a href="http://www.nakedcapitalism.com/2012/07/cathy-oneil-data-science-the-problem-isnt-statisticians-its-too-many-poseurs.html">Data Science: The Problem Isn't Statisticians, It's Too Many Poseurs</a>
more on 'big data'
-<a href="http://www.zdnet.com/moving-from-big-data-to-smart-data-zdnet-hot-topics-webcast-7000001591/">Moving from Big Data to Smart Data</a>
-<a href="http://www.zdnet.com/top-10-categories-for-big-data-sources-and-mining-technologies-7000000926/">Top 10 categories for Big Data sources and mining technologies</a>
-<a href="http://www.zdnet.com/blog/big-data/hadoop-2-0-mapreduce-in-its-place-hdfs-all-grown-up/267">Hadoop 2.0</a>
-<a href="http://lcg-archive.web.cern.ch/lcg-archive/public/components.htm">Grid computing</a>
-<a href="http://www.nsa.gov/research/_files/publications/cloud_computing_overview.pdf">NSA Overview of Cloud Computing</a>
<a href="http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2012/08/when-central-is-essential.html">When Central Is Essential</a> - "economist Glen Weyl* views changes in technology as leveling the playing field between <a href="http://climateerinvest.blogspot.co.uk/2012/08/the-theory-of-everything.html">central governments and free markets</a>"<blockquote>In his famous 1945 article, "<a href="http://www.econlib.org/library/Essays/hykKnw1.html">The Use of Knowledge in Society</a>," F. A. <a href="http://www.economist.com/blogs/freeexchange/2012/08/keynes-and-hayek">Hayek argued</a> that despite their inequity and inefficiency, free markets were necessary in order to allow the incorporation of information held by dispersed individuals into social decisions. No central planner could hope to collect and process all the information necessary for social decisions; only markets allowed and provided the incentives for <a href="http://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=1&cad=rja&sqi=2&ved=0CCAQFjAA&url=http%3A%2F%2Fonline.wsj.com%2Farticle%2FSB10000872396390444914904577615321730270682.html&ei=vz9BUIPzEOe9ywGqxoEI&usg=AFQjCNG_D0Vfcn_yJQbeSsyseeEPGlrzyg&sig2=ohhuhUsOjAON2POtdO4lLw">disaggregated information processing</a>. Yet, increasingly, information technology is leading individuals to delegate their <a href="http://techcrunch.com/2012/08/18/payment-data-is-more-valuable-than-payment-fees/">most "private" decisions</a> to <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/30/technology/talk-to-me-one-machine-said-to-the-other.html?pagewanted=all">automated processing systems</a>... While these information systems are [currently] mostly nongovernmental, they are sufficiently centralized that it is increasingly hard to see how dispersed information poses the challenge it once did to <a href="http://whynationsfail.com/blog/2012/8/30/culture-and-development.html">centralized planning</a>.</blockquote><a href="http://www.slate.com/blogs/moneybox/2012/08/28/the_optimist_s_case_for_information_technology.html">The Optimist's Case For Information Technology</a><blockquote><a href="http://infoproc.blogspot.com/2012/08/back-in-mact.html">Schools</a> have poured a ton of money into ICT and tech-focused startups are <a href="http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/magazine/septemberoctober_2012/features/_its_three_oclock_in039373.php?page=all">circling the education sector</a> aiming to disrupt it. Something's going to change here. <a href="http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2012-08-28/ibm-creating-pocket-sized-watson-in-16-billion-sales-push-tech.html">IBM built</a> a supercomputer that can win at Jeopardy which is cool but useless and now they're trying to turn it into a medical diagnostic engine. Computer-driven cars are already a real thing. Right now, price is a big barrier to adoption but if there's anything we know about ICT hardware it's that <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2012/08/28/technology/active-in-cloud-amazon-reshapes-computing.html">the price will fall</a>... I don't know that doing a medical consult with your home computer and then having your prescription automatically disatched by autonomous vehicle equals a change comparable to indoor plumbing, but it's a <a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tygZ2A8rytQ">big deal</a>.</blockquote><a href="http://blog.supplysideliberal.com/post/30397795081/two-types-of-knowledge-human-capital-and-information">Two Types of Knowledge: Human Capital and Information</a> - "Human capital is knowledge that is hard to transfer. Information is knowledge that is easy to transfer."
<a href="http://noahpinionblog.blogspot.com/2012/08/desire-modification-ultimate-technology.html">Desire Modification: the ultimate technology</a> - "With humanity divided into clades by motivation and personality type, evolution would be very important." [<a href="http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=57T1QVY40ps#t=3m33s">1</a>,<a href="http://andrewsullivan.thedailybeast.com/2012/08/is-there-a-limit-to-iq.html">2</a>]
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<small>*<a href="http://www.economicprincipals.com/issues/2010.11.22/1202.html">The Situation Bears Watching</a> - "Hermann Weyl, the mathematician who was Einstein's friend, was a great uncle."</small> tag:metafilter.com,2012:site.119532Sat, 01 Sep 2012 00:12:16 -0800kliuless"We should forget about small efficiencies, say about 97% of the time: premature optimization is the root of all evil." ~C.A.R. Hoare, quoted by Donald Knuthhttp://www.metafilter.com/109308/We%2Dshould%2Dforget%2Dabout%2Dsmall%2Defficiencies%2Dsay%2Dabout%2D97%2Dof%2Dthe%2Dtime%2Dpremature%2Doptimization%2Dis%2Dthe%2Droot%2Dof%2Dall%2Devil%2DCAR%2DHoare%2Dquoted%2Dby%2DDonald%2DKnuth
<a href="http://www.slate.com/articles/technology/technology/2011/11/computer_scrollbars_why_is_apple_eradicating_a_linchpin_of_user_interface_design_.html">Save the Scrollbar! <small>[slate.com]</small></a> Why are Apple, Google, and Facebook eradicating a linchpin of user interface design? tag:metafilter.com,2011:site.109308Thu, 10 Nov 2011 05:09:14 -0800FizzEvery good cult needs a shrinehttp://www.metafilter.com/106988/Every%2Dgood%2Dcult%2Dneeds%2Da%2Dshrine
<a href="http://shrineofapple.com/">The Shrine of Apple</a>--a (sill in progress) archive of photos and specs for Apple's complete product history. tag:metafilter.com,2011:site.106988Tue, 30 Aug 2011 14:04:54 -0800Horace RumpoleThe Genesis and History of the Macintosh Projecthttp://www.metafilter.com/100555/The%2DGenesis%2Dand%2DHistory%2Dof%2Dthe%2DMacintosh%2DProject
<em><a href="http://www.scribd.com/doc/32541304/Macintosh-Project-Genesis-and-History-1981-Memo">This</a> is a short history and background of the Macintosh research project on the eve of its becoming a product.</em> tag:metafilter.com,2011:site.100555Mon, 14 Feb 2011 16:19:21 -0800Joe Beese40 years of Xerox Parchttp://www.metafilter.com/95880/40%2Dyears%2Dof%2DXerox%2DParc
<a href="http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=xerox-parc-biegelsen-40">"The Office of the Future" 40 Years Later</a> - <a href="http://www.computerworld.com/s/article/print/9186198/Xerox_PARC_turns_40_Marking_four_decades_of_tech_innovations?taxonomyName=Applications&taxonomyId=18">40 years</a> of <a href="http://www.parc.com/">Xerox Parc</a>, the Palo Alto research group responsible for the <a href="http://www.digibarn.com/collections/software/alto/index.html">desktop computer interface</a> as we know it today. tag:metafilter.com,2010:site.95880Mon, 20 Sep 2010 10:43:19 -0800ArtwOH MY GOD I AM SO EXCITEDhttp://www.metafilter.com/95514/OH%2DMY%2DGOD%2DI%2DAM%2DSO%2DEXCITED
<a href="http://vimeo.com/14552419">Home Computing</a> <a href="http://vimeo.com/14552306">in the Future</a>, according to Freescale Semiconductor (Vimeo) <a href="http://www.core77.com/blog/object_culture/videos_of_home-computing-in-the-future_concepts_17312.asp">(via)</a> tag:metafilter.com,2010:site.95514Tue, 07 Sep 2010 17:36:49 -0800azarbayejaniTonight we're gonna party like it's nineteen ninety-sixhttp://www.metafilter.com/91341/Tonight%2Dwere%2Dgonna%2Dparty%2Dlike%2Dits%2Dnineteen%2Dninetysix
<a href="http://youroldcrapwebsite.wordpress.com/">Your Old Crap Website</a> - <i>This blog is to celebrate the time when web design wasn’t limited by web standards and convention, and when the office geek was given full reign to set up the website on his own since the bosses probably couldn’t see the point in having one.</i> tag:metafilter.com,2010:site.91341Sat, 24 Apr 2010 09:42:07 -0800ArtwI know what's wrong and that's good.http://www.metafilter.com/81453/I%2Dknow%2Dwhats%2Dwrong%2Dand%2Dthats%2Dgood
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/staff/fatbits/2009/05/hypercritical.ars" title="arstechnica.com">"...criticism, for lack of a better word, is good. Criticism is right. Criticism works. Criticism clarifies, cuts through, and captures the essence of the evolutionary spirit…</a> tag:metafilter.com,2009:site.81453Wed, 06 May 2009 13:46:50 -0800Brandon BlatcherFaberge Micehttp://www.metafilter.com/45227/Faberge%2DMice
<a href="http://www.russian-mouse.com/eng/start.php">Because everybody needs a beautiful mouse.</a> tag:metafilter.com,2005:site.45227Mon, 19 Sep 2005 15:28:49 -0800dirtynumbangelboyIntelligent Design by Trial and Errorhttp://www.metafilter.com/44585/Intelligent%2DDesign%2Dby%2DTrial%2Dand%2DError
<a href="http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/sci/tech/4166076.stm">A more efficient microbe genome.</a> A <a href="http://www.cybertiggyr.com/gene/htdocs/shiva-0/shiva-0.html">more efficient sorting algorithm</a>. A <a href="http://www.visi.com/~pmk/evolved.html">more efficient keyboard layout</a>. tag:metafilter.com,2005:site.44585Fri, 26 Aug 2005 09:41:21 -0800fatllamaTop Billinghttp://www.metafilter.com/43790/Top%2DBilling
<a href="http://www.milkandcookies.com/article/2938/">Inventor of CTRL-ALT-DEL ridicules Bill Gates.</a> "'I may have invented CTRL-ALT-DEL, but Bill Gates made it famous". Video clip of the episode, <a href="http://www.tuaw.com/2005/07/27/ctrl-alt-del-inventor-mocks-bill-gates/">via TUAW</a>, who say "The funniest part is the expression, or lack thereof, on the face of Bill." tag:metafilter.com,2005:site.43790Thu, 28 Jul 2005 04:57:34 -0800nthdegxA history of the GUIhttp://www.metafilter.com/41829/A%2Dhistory%2Dof%2Dthe%2DGUI
<a href="http://arstechnica.com/articles/paedia/gui.ars/1">A history of the GUI</a> from the 1930s through the 90s. Also see Vannevar Bush's visionary 1945 essay <i><a href="http://www.ps.uni-sb.de/~duchier/pub/vbush/vbush-all.shtml">As we May Think,</a></i> which helped to set the wheels in motion. (Check out the <a href="http://episteme.arstechnica.com/eve/ubb.x/a/tpc/f/174096756/m/319004813731/r/319004813731">Ars Technica discussion</a> for good related links and commentary.) <small>(via <a href="http://sideshow.me.uk/">The Sideshow</a>)</small> tag:metafilter.com,2005:site.41829Sat, 07 May 2005 21:09:46 -0800madamjujujiveHere we go againhttp://www.metafilter.com/40954/Here%2Dwe%2Dgo%2Dagain
<a href="http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/article/0,aid,120093,pg,1,00.asp">Adobe announces new round of design applications.</a> Inspring groans from designers everywhere who just got used to the CS apps, Adobe announced today <a href="http://www.adobe.com/products/creativesuite/overview.html">CS2</a>, 18 months after the last version. Included in the updates are <a href="http://www.dpreview.com/news/0504/05040402adobe_pscs2.asp">Photoshop</a>, <a href="http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/article/1,aid,120193,pg,1,00.asp">Indesign</a>, <a href="http://www.macworld.com/2005/04/features/adobeillustrator/index.php">Illustrator</a>, <a href="http://www.pcworld.com/reviews/article/0,aid,120269,00.asp">Golive</a> and a new component called <a href="http://www.gxo.com/more.php?id=566_0_1_0_M25">Bridge</a>. The only hitch in the planned obsolescence model is that all the applications will now require <a href="http://www.macworld.com/news/2005/04/03/activation/index.php">product activation</a>, thereby inspiring crackers everywhere to get busy. tag:metafilter.com,2005:site.40954Mon, 04 Apr 2005 08:10:05 -0800jeremiasSomebody had to do it. Really.http://www.metafilter.com/35305/Somebody%2Dhad%2Dto%2Ddo%2Dit%2DReally
Following a long history of <a href="http://www.macintoshos.com/macintosh.museum/index.shtml">innovative designs</a> Apple has created a loyal following. Today they released their newest <a href="http://www.apple.com/imac/">
iMac</a> into the wild. tag:metafilter.com,2004:site.35305Tue, 31 Aug 2004 18:25:40 -0800elwoodwilescool information design from ben fryhttp://www.metafilter.com/30403/cool%2Dinformation%2Ddesign%2Dfrom%2Dben%2Dfry
<a href="http://acg.media.mit.edu/people/fry/index.html">cool information design</a> from ben fry at MIT <small>(via newstoday.com)</small>... anyone else have any links to share of <a href="http://acg.media.mit.edu/people/fry/valence/applet/">particularly good</a> information designers/design? merry x-mas all. tag:metafilter.com,2003:site.30403Thu, 25 Dec 2003 09:38:59 -0800specialk420i &lt;3 applehttp://www.metafilter.com/28664/i%2Dlt3%2Dapple
<a href="http://sfgate.com/columnists/morford/">Lick Me, I'm A Mackintosh.</a> One columnist's ode/rant re: Apple's design ethos. tag:metafilter.com,2003:site.28664Wed, 01 Oct 2003 08:54:44 -0800serafinapekkalahttp://www.metafilter.com/21365/
Zeldman <a href="http://www.zeldman.com/daily/1102a.shtml#monkfishbluefish">likes</a> it. <a href="http://www.useit.com">Jakob</a> isn't saying, though he'll probably weigh in. <a href="http://www.metafilter.com/user.mefi/1">mathowie</a>'ll probably like it since he seems to dig those <a href="http://www.adaptivepath.com/">Adaptive Path</a> guys. It's <a href="http://www.eleganthack.com/">elegant</a>, it's like a pleased-with-itself <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0596000359/metafilter-20/ref=nosim/">polar bear</a>, it's the <a href="http://www.aifia.org">AIfIA</a> and there are probably more than <a href="http://www.aifia.org/pg/25_theses.php">25 reasons</a> it's a Good Thing.
tag:metafilter.com,2002:site.21365Mon, 04 Nov 2002 19:24:22 -0800jburkaConceptPC @ Intelhttp://www.metafilter.com/4851/ConceptPC%2DIntel
<a href="http://developer.intel.com/technology/easeofuse/conceptpc.htm">ConceptPC @ Intel</a> - pretty much interesting...response from PCs to iMac-mania?....gimme a <a href="http://developer.intel.com/technology/easeofuse/download/magic.htm">MagicBean</a>!! (flash required) tag:metafilter.com,2000:site.4851Sat, 16 Dec 2000 15:24:48 -0800candidaRoger Black on Design.http://www.metafilter.com/2537/Roger%2DBlack%2Don%2DDesign
<a href="http://www.macaddict.com/magazine/plugin/pros/black.html">Roger Black on Design.</a> MacAddict put up an interview with Roger Black from their August 2000 issue. There are a couple of interesting points as in his take on transitioning from print to web: <blockquote>"I think that the main thing is pretty much to work as you would in print design. A good designer always focuses on the reader or the customer, the viewer, whatever the end-user is. You just have to do that on the Net the same way you do in print.... I do not believe that the technological hurdles are that big. It doesn't seem to me that big of a deal.... Most of the stuff we do on the Web is not particularly difficult. Almost anybody, particularly anybody under thirty growing up in our society has enough technological culture to work with it. Don't get scared. It’s not that big of a deal."</blockquote> tag:metafilter.com,2000:site.2537Thu, 20 Jul 2000 10:03:15 -0800leo